I want like an actual support specialization like the Druid unless they fix the medkit but even then is that enough for a healing/ support build? I would also love to see something like a teleport it would fit so well in terms of the mechanical advanced technology themes. In terms of weapons I’d guess mace pr axe but it could really be anything. For example even a scepter could be made into sort of a ranged tesla or conducting rod or something. It doesnt have to even be a healing thing any new unique mechanic that can offer group support would be great.
Actually, yes, if med kit was fixed/buffed properly we could easily have a solid support role. There’s 3 main types of heals I’ve found.
Small Consistent healing (effectively regen)
- Guard: Traited symbols, traited Virtue of Resolve, Elite Signet, and Mace Auto
- Ele: Water staff 1, Soothing Mists persistent effect
- Druid: Staff1 and 2
Small more consistent burst (Your 1-2k heals)
- Guard: Aegis heals (1.4k+ heal every 5-6 seconds depending on aegis rotation)
- Ele: Aura heals (1.4k+)
- Druid: Seeds of Life (1.3k+)
Large burst healing (your 4k+ heals that paired with the rest are able to bounce people back from large damage)
- Guard: Wings of Resolve, Receive the Light, Elite Signet activation
- Ele: Geyser, Wash the Pain Away, Overload Water
- Druid: Lunar Impact, Ancestral Grace, Rejuvenating Tides full channel, Glyph of Rejuvenation
Overall we have solid regen, a half decent bit of that small burst through initial drop of Super Elixir (saving it for when you need it though means our regen potential drops), and HT pulses. But, both of those are on long reuse compared to similar heals from the 3 professions above. We don’t have any large heals for the group outside of mass blasting a water field but there are so many times now that it’s just not practical to expect that as a possibility (combo fields everywhere!).
What I’d like to see for Med Kit:
- Water field, it’s too big of a sacrifice to lose compared to the HT and Gyro alternatives
- Large heal, something like Geyser/Lunar Impact, this brings up concerns of scrapper sustain mainly in PVP, but there are at least half a dozen ways I can think of to limit that.
- Damage, we shouldn’t be stuck doing 0 damage while in Med Kit, and Med kit is a huge part of our ‘small consistent regen like heals’ without it we can’t get anywhere close to Ele with water Staff 1, let alone with that and Soothing Mists.
Along with that a substantial buff to Soothing Detonation, ideally in it’s HP scaling so you can’t just toss it into a more offensive focused build in PVP/WvW.
I’d go into more detail on my ideas but this post is more than long enough, and I doubt they’d want to do exactly my thoughts anyways
, but with the above we’d still be second rate, just a viable second rate. And, a full support Elite Spec could be cool.
For Zealots for sure Power builds. You can actually swap out Nature Magic for Markmanship for more personal dps if you wanted. You could drop staff and go Sword-X + Longbow and do a rotation with quick draw to get 2X rapid fire + Barrage then swap back until barrage would be back up (haven’t really played that power build in a while so I’m assuming it’s the same as when I quit before HoT). You could just run Sword/Axe and Sword/warhorn, or for extra evades offhand dagger.
Quite a lot of freedom, keep CA going to keep GoTL up, use Glyphs with the seed trait to keep GoTL going between when you want to drop CA. I’m sure someone will be along and give you better advice for the power side of things for when you want to go heavier damage. I personally almost always run Condi Druid, and in raids I PUG so it’s full healer Druid. Sometimes I slip in pure condi ranger
just for the funsies.
I’d say a full set of magi isn’t a bad idea, it’s cheap, you can get the gear at I believe Melandru temple in Orr, and trinkets at Lyssa. So just a few hundred thousand Karma if you have a bunch of that. Monk runes you’ll be farming Ascalonian Catacombs for, Water is a good alternative until you can get the monk (monk’s % boost is huge). No need to go better than exotic though as you shouldn’t have to use it often, just when you need an excessive amount of healing because your group is playing sub par (or you want it to make it easy mode on everyone )
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I play T4 Fractals almost everyday with my Guard, equiped with full Soldier’s (Hipster build alert) using GS Mace/Shield. Every now and then I switch GS to Hammer, the 4 mini bosses in uncatagorized for example (rabbit, bandit saboteur, charr-like and Ettin). Using Hammer – Mace/Shield with AH and Feel My Wrath gives me alot of defense to eat hit after hit. Therefore being the center of attention while the other teammates can have free hits without the fear getting downed in one blow.
Dont get me wrong, Iam not saying zerk Guards is not viable on T4 Fractals, the above is just my personal playstyle which suits my role as a Guardian just fine.
On Dungeons however, I use my zerk Guard and make more use of active defense: aegis, blindness, reflects ect.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one that still plays and finds value in the old Pillar Guard (I went clerics for additional team heals but effectively the same role).
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Hopefully with some quality 5 man content similar to these raids
But we have the other thread asking the devs not to develop Fractals like raids
:S yeah which is just stupid. The things that make raids different from old dungeons or fractals is primarily a forced focus on healing, tanking, and non combat mechanics. Things that a year and a half ago were being begged for to combat the zerk meta. They did a great job providing just that.
The ‘raid mechanics’ in Swamp are actually non existent. It’s an increased difficulty in that it’s a ‘do or die’ scenario (dodge or get massive damge, do the wisps in time or massive damage) and really it plays more like old dungeons/fractals than new raids.
Chaos is far closer to raids with it’s large repercussions if you don’t break the bar, a fixation mechanic, and the use of the special action key (hell snowblind is more similar to raids than swamp!).
As of ~11 August, GW2 efficiency had the following stats
- ~56% have [zero magnetite shards]
- ~18% have 1-50 shards;
- ~10% have 50-150 shards;
- ~16% have more than 150 shards;
The above suggests that a lot more people have tried raiding than many of us might have guessed.
However, it’s probably fair to say that the GW2/E numbers overstate participation by a “significant” fraction.
- Not that many people allow their API information to be publicly available via this site.
- GW2 efficiency can’t estimate how many people play the game across any dimension, including concurrency (those logged in at the same time), hours spent playing vs chatting etc, number of active sessions per player, etc.
- M-Shards might not be the best metric to measure participation, since you can build up a fair number without succeeding and then give up on raiding. (Unfortunately, we can’t easily look at legendary insights.)
So my guess is that GW2/E’s numbers represent an upper bound:
- For sure, less than half of players have stepped foot in raids.
- Those who start raiding ‘mostly’ continue to raid.
- “Probably” more people have tried raiding in GW2 than have tried its equivalent in other games.
I’m in the camp of raiding every week but spend every last shards to gearing alts. Does Gw2E account for it? 220+ Insights but less than 200 shards now
200 shards? what a casual, I have nearly 500! :b ( don’t hate, I just want to give her crap!)
Why don’t they make certain boons cap like certain condis?
One would think this would be the easiest fix, I’m no programmer but it certainly sounds like it would take almost no time at all.
The sad thing is they already do. I think swiftness caps at 2mins?
I thought it was a stack cap not a time cap. So say stacking Symbol of Swiftness would net you a lower swiftness duration at cap than using swiftness from blasting lightning fields. I believe Quickness works the same way, I just don’t know how many stacks that is, or if my memory is just way off
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To OP: Dude, kitten happens. Not everything is for everyone, you have to accept that. No one is entitled to get/have everything he/she wants. That’s life.
Where would the game be if posters had just accepted that GW2 was not for raiders because it had no raids?
Hopefully with some quality 5 man content similar to these raids
Go to the golem and show us your dps.
This is how much i do…
Can you show me with the viper how much damage you do??? Thank you
This damage is steadySo, taking that picture you have 2s of damage shown (there is a DPS report, a much more reasonable thing to use rather than a clip of 2s of damage), using that and adding it up you’re doing 5277 DPS.
I just ran a simple rotation using the setup I was using for Matthias last night and cheap food (read not completely optimal for damage, plus I had lag spikes going in and out of RS
) I was able to get the picture below (6341 DPS).
As for some discounting Might/Vuln, this is where the ‘meta is a lie’ thing comes into play, you can’t always assume you’ll have those things provided, however it does mean that the more you’re utilizing those things yourself the less is left to buff your DPS from the team providing them (if you cap your own might then the PS warrior isn’t going to help you by providing a superfluous 25 stacks of might). So as you see in Dominik’s post given outside buffing the numbers grow and grow and in organized grouping that’s the goal (bring a PS war and Druid).
TLDR: I did a kittenty job and still beat what is to my best guess the DPS shown.
EDIT: Noticed I had more than 1mil total damage, my guess is it was counting self inflicted damage, but take the time and 1mil total damage and it’s 6329, so yeah still better
Thank you very much
Could you show me only the damage that come from your life reap(without food)? Could you take in the picture also your traits?
I can also use the golem or other utilty.
Please go to the chat and tick combact.
I’m sure that the viper dps is higher, just i would like know how much…
Because in Fractal i spend all my time to ress reaper, yeah high damage but if you go down every 2 minutes is better have less damage but steady.
Life reap isn’t used in my build at all.
Traits are the standard for Condi Setup, Death magic 111, Curses was 213, and Reaper 232.
I’m not going to the chat and tick combat, that’s just plain kittened. Why would you compare damage potential and not use that handy new DPS report?
And, Viper DPS in a solo setting is about what I showed there if you don’t change your build at all. But, changing your build to say get chilling victory instead of decimate defenses (you’re not pushing any vuln with these traits anyways) I’d be getting much more might to increase it. Also I should have swapped traits but I just knew I could beat the dps you showed with the build I had going at the time.
In a group setting we’re looking at more like 15k+ depending on what kind of buffs your group is giving you.
If reapers are dying in Fractals it’s because they’re pretty poor players, reaper is almost invincible.
Go to the golem and show us your dps.
This is how much i do…
Can you show me with the viper how much damage you do??? Thank you
This damage is steady
So, taking that picture you have 2s of damage shown (there is a DPS report, a much more reasonable thing to use rather than a clip of 2s of damage), using that and adding it up you’re doing 5277 DPS.
I just ran a simple rotation using the setup I was using for Matthias last night and cheap food (read not completely optimal for damage, plus I had lag spikes going in and out of RS ) I was able to get the picture below (6341 DPS).
As for some discounting Might/Vuln, this is where the ‘meta is a lie’ thing comes into play, you can’t always assume you’ll have those things provided, however it does mean that the more you’re utilizing those things yourself the less is left to buff your DPS from the team providing them (if you cap your own might then the PS warrior isn’t going to help you by providing a superfluous 25 stacks of might). So as you see in Dominik’s post given outside buffing the numbers grow and grow and in organized grouping that’s the goal (bring a PS war and Druid).
TLDR: I did a kittenty job and still beat what is to my best guess the DPS shown.
EDIT: Noticed I had more than 1mil total damage, my guess is it was counting self inflicted damage, but take the time and 1mil total damage and it’s 6329, so yeah still better
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One thing i can tell you, is that wvw players havent the same mentality of pvers grinders, so we don’t give a kitten about reward tracks XD, we play for fights and we have fun fighting, our fun is not coming from opening the loot but from killing the opponents.
That’s why people always cried about how rewards were bad and how EotM was much more rewarding?
That doesn’t mean ppl play for rewards, it means they see the difference between the two an common sense would dictate that reward/loot progression should be close to equal. It’s the principle more then anything I would think.
But this person said we don’t care about rewards, then why would we complain when the rewarding is poor? That whole “WvW players don’t care about rewards” thing is a lie.
Sure, we don’t want to turn WvW in EotM 2.0 by overflooding it with rewards, but I’m thankful for the reward tracks as they now increased the poor income I have from playing mostly WvW. That mean less time on PvE and more time in the game mode I want to play.
I think most of us were complaining because we’d actually lose gold playing WvW, especially those of us that were constantly upgrading things. Even now with the reward tracks I’m lucky if I break even.
This^
WvW now earns enough that you don’t (or shouldn’t) lose money doing it. Problem is the way many handle it they just let the commander or just some people pay for all the siege and stuff, tip your commanders! (those 4 superior rams that just dropped cost someone about 1g, multiply that by the dozen or so times you do that, it adds up and someone is footing the bill).
GS still has the same niche it’s always had, burst damage. Run your burst rotation then swap out.
Mace: Healing/support/defensive
Sword: Gap closing + Fury
Scepter: Mid range/large hitbox/Might
Hammer: Protection/CC
GS: Burst/AE Pull/Mobility
Bow: Longer Range
Shield: Team support
Focus: Personal Defense
Torch: DPSStaff -> Lootstick, swiftness, healer
Yes, sorry forgot that one, but again it still has it’s niche.
It’s a ‘1st world problem’ type thing, but guardians have to get every weapon if they want to be fully set up